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My biggest fears were the workload of this quarter, the critique and the creative expectations of the course.

I think it's safe to say that I overcame all these fears. My workload has been a lot stressful during finals and midterm time, but since this was the class that I liked the best, and I really didn't like my other ones, I gave my most to this class and I enjoyed doing so.

The critiques weren't that bad. I thought that people were going to be brutal but even when we were evaluating something that was obviously not done with much effort or time, the critique was gentle suggestions to develop ideas. I think that the ideas behind all the work were good and original and personal for the most part and that made it inappropriate to tear people apart, they definitely wouldn't deserve it.

I feel like the intimidation of the creative process of the project proposals was quickly one of my favorite challenges rather than a real struggle. I really like this sort of live art aspect of the class and I feel like I rose to meet the challenge and the out of my box thinking that the class required. I truly enjoyed, and learned from this class and feel like I want to further my work in this area.

Classes

I think that all of the classes that Desiree has dreamed up sound really interesting. I would be down to take all of them actually. They seem a lot better than some of the courses that are upper division right now. After this class, I have become much more interested in art as it relates and plays into life and I feel like that is a common theme in all the courses that were advertised. I really like the Spectacle Praxes idea and the Art as an Activist idea. These are classes that I feel I would enjoy most and have a great time in. They kind of focus on areas of Art and life that I enjoyed most in 7A and would love to have spent more time on. I want these classes to be real!! They seem so much better than the classes that I'm looking at taking such as digital media and stuff like that. I don't love building websites or programming but it seems like that's one of the only ways to go for upper division art credits. I like art that was featured in art 7a so much better, it seems so pertinent to life and culminates in a beautiful array of ways, that's why I like these class ideas a lot.